8 Roll of Thunder --- 1

Please answer the following comprehension questions in the discussion link for this page.

Ch. 1-3
1. What do you know about Cassie?


2. How are the black children treated?


3. What was Papa's warning about the Wallace store? Why do you think Papa gave this warning?


4. Why do the white children taunt Cassie and her friends? What do you think about children who taunt other children?

Literary Elements: Setting

The setting of a novel refers to the time and place the events occur. What is the setting of this novel?



Point of View---Point of view in literature refers to the person telling the story. There are three possible points of view in a novel:

• First-person narrator who, as a character, tells the story as he or she experienced it.
• Third person limited narrator who knows what one character is doing and thinking.
• Third-person omniscient narrator who knows what all the characters are doing and thinking.

Which point of view has the author chosen? What are the advantages and limitations of this point of view?